Two Haitian police officers were killed and six others injured after a weaponized drone launched by a gang-fighting task force exploded in the hills above Port-au-Prince, near where an Irish missionary and several others were abducted by armed gangs.
The accident Tuesday occurred after residents in Kenscoff found a so-called kamikazi drone and “in a gesture of good faith” carried it to police officers stationed at a nearby SWAT base, Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s office said. The drone “exploded at the site, claiming the lives of two police officers and seriously injuring two others,” the statement said. A kamikaze drone, also known as a suicide drone, is designed to hover over an area, crash into a target and detonate on impact.
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Source: Miami Herald News
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